Tokyo, Nov. 17.
'APANESE newspapers continue to play up sympathetically the interview on Wednesday afternoon between M. Smetanin, the Soviet Ambassador, and Admiral Nomura, the Japanese Foreign Minister.
The "Nichi Nichi," in admitting that the interview was of special significance, reveals that the Foreign Minister frankly submitted Japan's desires regarding the fisheries and other issues outstanding between the. two countries, He is said to have declared that Japan desires to hold negotiations on the fisheries question in Tokyo, although not objecting to parallel negotiations in Tokyo and Moscow on other issues.
The newspaper believes that Admiral Nomura expressed a desire for an eight-year fishery pact, thus obviate ing the negotiating of a temporary pact every year, and paving the way for a restoration of normal relations, "especially if the Soviet Union shows u ce-operative attitude towards Japan's efforts to establish a new order in East Asia."
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